This month, Reinvent is all about celebrating some of the most popular holidays: Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s, and all. Why do we enjoy these holidays so much? It could be the food, or the presents, or simply the fun times we can have with our friends and family.

Or, maybe, it could be because we just want to get out of school—am I right or am I right? We look forward to plenty of these holidays each year because we know that we most likely won’t have to school during these days. That kind of makes us wish there was a holiday everyday, right? Lucky for us, there is actually one (sometimes, several) holiday(s) for every day of the year. Isn’t that great? Unlucky for us, though, these weird holidays aren’t official enough to have our school suspend classes everyday. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t celebrate them anyway!

So if you’re into celebrating some weird holidays for the rest of the year, check out the holidays we've listed below and mark your calendar!

It's that time of the year again! No, I'm not talking about last week's Thanksgiving; I'm talking about the day after that! With all the holidays we celebrate every year, I noticed that this is the only holiday where people go beyond mad trying to get the best purchase. People actually line up outside stores days before so that they can be the first one to enter the shop and hopefully be the first one to find the much coveted item. These lines may or may not extend to the next block as well.

But it's the cyber age so who wants to move, right? Internet shopping has been all the rage this year and the beloved Black Friday sale is no exception. Instead of lining up for hours, people now make sure that their internet connection is secure and have their credit card numbers memorized before they stay in front of their laptops/PCs, immobile, waiting for the clock to turn a certain hour before they start clicking away!

Most people prefer online shopping than actually going out there in the battlefield also because Black Friday sales mostly apply to American stores only...so that means the rest of the world will have to settle with online shopping...that includes me.

I know it's not the healthiest way to de-stress myself, but shopping heals all wounds when it comes to me. Looking through endless racks of clothes and shoes and books, especially thrift shops, just makes my heart flutter like there's no tomorrow so that means the Black Friday is a holiday I definitely look forward to.

Last year, I went through a rough patch around Thanksgiving week so of course I had to do some window shopping (that is my alternative therapy when I'm broke - and I'm broke 80% of the time). I didn't have that much ca$h and I haven't gone shopping in months so I just had to convince my parents to allow me to shop (under a budget of course.) I didn't really know how to do the convincing but then this commercial went on the TV and it showed a kid who tried to convince his parents to buy him something through a PowerPoint presentation; I though hey, why not? So I made one too!

My dad just laughed at me. But that didn't stop me. I talked to him more; I told him how the band merch I wanted to buy were limited edition and all that shebang and after a while, it was another mission accomplished. I was able to purchase them. From that moment on though, I learned to save my money so now I have an Online Shopping Fund Jar which is definitely better than bothering my parents for their credit card numbers.

This is one of my Black Friday stories. How about you? What's your crazy Black Friday story?

- Marian PlazaP.S. Shopping is definitely one of the best things ever (all their consumerism agenda is definitely working!) but shopping or simply buying the things you really want will feel 101% more worth it if you actually saved for them. Go start your own fund jars A.S.A.P.!